Scope and Contents "This woman is described as very high strung, flies into tempers with everybody, particularly her daughter. Nags a lot. Family life unhappy owing to friction with her daughter. This woman is probably coming to the Clinic - menopausal depression - suspicious. PC agrees. This woman has funny ideas. She used to live on a remote farm which she liked very much. She turned against it after her son died and made her husband leave it - they have been in several houses since but she has never...

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"This woman is "very lugubrious" still thinks her son who was killed 3 years ago in the R.A.F. may come back. Tearful and supersensitive. Thought one of her daughters was being poisoned. Clean home, not over crowded, harmonious."

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"The Inspector says he used to be bad for the drink for a while, better now. Gave his wife an awful life. Symptoms said to date form the death of his little boy in an accident. Decent, clean people, respectable."

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"This old lady stops strangers and asks them if her son will come back from Canada (son is dead). Very wandered, persecuted. Nurse says she is not a widow - husband a big stout man. Two married daughters OK. Son keeps the English Church. She used to be depressed and would lie in bed all the time. Now elated. House not very clean - she is out all day. No Public Assistance. Dr - really the result of alcoholism, deluded. Heading for CRI."

Scope and Contents "Deaf in right ear. Imagined people were behind him in dark. Denies having heard voices. Does not remember having ever been afraid of certain colours. Was in army for 7 months. Discharged because of depression. Worried about trifles ever since his sister was killed. Has no parents, but has quite a few friends. Very sensitive about his discharge from the army and feels that people regard him as a shirker and try to find out in a round about way why he was discharged. On joining the army was...

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In this letter, Daiches thanks Jonathan Penner for the gift of his novel Going Blind. Daiches goes on to discuss his family and, in particular, his feelings following the death of his first wife Isobel Mackay in 1977.

Scope and Contents Song beginning 'O haoirir i ho ho' and accompanying story collected from Peigi Robastan nee Nic a Leallain [Peggy Robertson née MacLellan] Howmore [Tobha Mòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story explains that the song was written by a young noble-woman who met a handsome fairy, who was on horseback. They talked until the middle of the day watched secretly by her sister. The woman ran away with the fairy, who told her that her brother and sister said they would kill him. They did kill him...

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Song entitled 'I Nan Naomh' beginning 'I nan naomh, I nan caomh, I nan gaol', composed of twenty-one lines, which the accompanying note describes as 'A fragment describing the desolation of Iona after the Norsemen.'

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Song entitled 'I Nan Naomh Aoi' beginning 'I nan naomh, I nan caomh, I nan gaol' . The song is composed of twenty one lines and has been annotated in ink.